Word: royale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drew on capacious rubbers, donned a grey checked overcoat, struggled into a great black ulster with an astrakhan collar, clapped a bowler (derby) on his head, and was off by limousine to inspect in three days slightly over 100 bleak, grimy villages. Appropriately a driving snow swirled about the royal car and patriotic British correspondents wired to anxious London that H. R. H. was "pressing on," despite "his heavy cold" and "frequent coughing...
...outskirts of each village the royal motor halted and its occupants alighted in mud and slush. Resolutely the rubbers waded, and the bowler advanced toward drab little rows of tiny cottages, some containing only one room and an attic. The village of Winlaton was the first major halt, for there Edward of Wales expected to find an old man .who had challenged him ?Frank McKay, a miner of 74. "I'll show you misery, Your Royal Highness!" he had written. "I challenge you to come...
...took limousine for Newfield, Pelton, High Spen and Chopfield?the latter called "Little Moscow" and possessing a Lenin Street crossed by a Trotzky Street. In High Spen a few ragged young women cheerily called, "Good luck, Prince!" and there a certain Mrs. Ferrage dusted off a chair for the royal guest and called her daughter, saying, "Daughter, this is the Prince of Wales. Prince, this is my daughter...
Seemingly it was not until the second or third day of such royal slumming that Edward of Wales fully and deeply sensed the misery around him. He reacted by demanding to see the books and pay sheets of several employers, and appeared scandalized when one such sheet showed that a gang of four men, working five shifts, received at the end of the week only 29 shillings...
...Even in the U. S., where the pact was conceived, it was put through only after a hot fight in the Senate. But at Belgrade the pact was ratified in a few seconds, when Jugoslavia's Dictator-King dashed onto a royal decree his sprawling: "ALEXANDER...